Bridle-blind.



No. 766,397. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904. H. G. SBMMANN.

BRIDLE BLIND.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 1903.

no MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

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BRlDLE-BLIND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,397, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed May 11,1903. Serial No. 156,577. N modelfl To (LN who/11, [1 71m, concern.-

Be it known that I. Hui- MANN (l. Smmaxx, a citizen of the United States of America. and a resident of Des Moines, lollt county. Iowa. have invented a new and useful Bridle-Blind. of which the following a specilication.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved bridle-blind in the use of which an animal on which it is employed may not look to the rear and at the same time the blind cannot close upon and totally obstruct the vision of the animal.

My invention consists in the construction of a bridle-blind partially plane and partially concavo-convex in contour,whereby said blind cannot close upon the eye and close the vision of an animal wearing the same and yet will obstruct and limit vision of the animal laterally and rearwardly.

My invention consists, further. in the construction of a bridle-blind, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of one of the blinds detached from a bridle. Fig. 2 is an outer edge elevation of the same blind. Fig. 3 is an upper edge view of plan of the same blind. Fig. i is a cross-section of the same blind on the indicated line a i of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a face view of the same blind. but formed with rounded forward corners.

.ln the construction of the blind, as shown, the numerals 11,) ll designate pieces. plates, or sheets of leather of rectangular form and equal size. A sheet-metal plate 1'2 is provided of rectangular form and somewhat less width and length than the sheets 1011. The sheets l0 ll of leather are laid on and in contact with opposite faces of the metal plate l2 and are stitched together along three margins. as at 13 let 15. on lines parallel with and spaced apart from the upper. lower. and forward margins of said metal plate. The tlat blind formed by stitching together the sheets ll on opposite sides of the metal plate 12 is then mounted in a former or die-press (not shown) and pressed. bent, and shaped as follows: The blind is bent laterally on a curved line 16. extending from top to bottom thereof, and the portion of the blind within the circle of which the line 16 is an arc is made concavoconvex and the apex of the concavo-convexity thereof is the center or axis of the arc line 16. The upper and lower margins of the shaped or pressed blind are on right lines connected at the centers thereof by short curved lines, as shown in Fig. 3, and the front margin of said blind is on a curved line from top to bottom, as shown in Fig. The rear margin of the shaped or pressed blind is on a right line. Thus the completed blind is composed of a plane portion 17. having plane upper, lower. and rear margins, and a concavoconvex portion 18. having plane upper and lower margins and a curved'front margin, the two portions 17 and 18 joining integrally on an arc line 16.

The plane upper and lower margins of the blind provide for the obstruction and limitation of the rearward, upward, and downward vision of the horse or other animal wearing said blind. This is in contradistinction to the construction of a blind with concaved upper and lower margins, which permit the animal to look rearward on oblique lines upward or downward.

The concave-convex formation of the portion 18 of the blind, being the outer portion placed directly opposite the eye, provides for the forward vision of the animal at all times. This is in contrzulistinction to the construction of a blind wholly concavo-convex, which may tlap against the eye and wholly obstruct the vision.

in Fig. 5 I show the blind constructed with plates 10 11, with rounded forward corners, which permit a greater range of vision upward and downward. but not rearward.

Any desired design or configuration for the purpose of mere ornament, such as 19, may be applied to the outer surface of the sheet l() 01' ll).

I claim as my invention 1. The bridle-bliml formed of rectangular sheets of leather stitched together, a rectangular plate of metal between said sheets of leather, approximately one-half portions of said sheets and plate bent laterally and formed concavoconvex in two directions, the concaveconvex portion having plane upper and lower per and lower margins and a concaved for- 1' margins and a COHCZLVQCl forward margin, and Ward margin.

joining the plane portion integrally on curved Signed by me at Des Moin'es, Iowa, this 1st lines. clay of April, 1903.

2. The bridle-blind, formeclin rectangular HERMANN G. SEMMANN. shape, approximately one-halt or said blind plane and With plane upper and lower mar- XVitnesses: gins and the remainder of sand blincl concavoi R. G. ORWIG, convex in tWo directions and with plane up- S. C. SWEET. 

